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Rules specify automatic actions to be performed when a new item is created. For example when a new email arrives in an inbox in an email program such as Microsoft Outlook. Rules can also be used for similar purposes in other types of program.

I know that it's possible to make a rule so that you get a notification for all folders rather than just the inbox; however, I have rules that direct certain types of emails towards folders because I ...

I have over 50 rules which automatically move incoming email (in both gmail and hotmail) when they arrive into folders. But the problem I have found is now I have to go through each folder to see if ...

I'm trying to figure out if I'm able to set up two rules for delaying the sending of messages from Outlook.
We have one set up for some of our users that delays the sending by 2 minutes, if the mail ...

I am wondering if it is possible to set up a rule in outlook that responds to an email in the body rather than replying to the actual sender.
We receive emails through a website for people wanting to ...

My goal is no make Outlook delete all mail from a specified address keeping maximum 3 latest (it really helps with some daily subscriptions like coupons, etc.).
I have lots of rules sorting mail into ...

I have a PC with win 8 with two different available wifi internet lines available.
I want to to force a specific website be opened only by only one of internet connection and other websites be opened ...

I've been asked to set up an alert whenever our staff try to send emails to a certain domain, and we're using Outlook 2013/365. I'm just wondering if anyone knows if this is possible and how to do it?
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Every month I receive an e-mail somewhere around the 15th. I would like to create a rule that automatically sets a follow-up reminder for the 30th of the month. I don't see any way to do that with any ...

I am using Outlook 2010 in my office. I have one business inbox and several shared inboxes.
For my own inbox I use many rules. One of them applies gray text color on mails which are sent to me in CC.
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We have a new company that has their own email domain that has joined our company and has started using our email standards and domain (basically a merger).
There is about 9 staff that would like an ...

I have written a bunch of macros that allow me to enable or disable a specific Outlook rule (i.e., delayed sending of messages) via a toolbar button. They also change the button's appearance to show ...

we have a new copying machine in our office, and it is capable of fax per mail and print per mail. what i want to do is to configure postfix in a way that our copier is capable of sending anywhere (so ...

Is it possible to set up a rule to copy all e-mails sent to or from a particular domain into a folder? The conversation view does not seem to pick up some sent items when I simply do this for items ...

I'm a system administrator at a small university with about 150 full time staff.
In the past week, I've had two clients report that they're not getting any emails. On examination, we find that they ...

As this question noted, Outlook 2007 unfortunately removes categories from replies, thus requiring me to (re)categorize replies (to replies). Now while one could setup filters to some extend, I wonder ...

I created some mail categories identical to keywords that appear in related emails and would like to have the categories applied automatically to them. Surely I could manually create filters for each ...

Outlook is moving some emails to a folder of mine that it should not be. I'm guessing the reason for this is a logic error in one of the rules I made, but I don't want to go through all of my rules to ...

As the title says, I want to create one inbox in Exchange 2010 and then attach a bunch (7-9) email addresses to it. Then I want to automatically filter the messages by recipient address and move them ...

is it possible to use udev rules to excluce a single device from the rule?
for instance if I have 5 harddisk plugged in and I want to create custom names for all harddisk except for a single one? is ...

Basically my problem is that I am on a server which constantly switches around hdd's. What I want to achieve is have having devices tied to the physical ports on the hardware.
like /dev/sda is port 0 ...

I am attempting to write a 22MB iptables rule-set file, the very kind that is generated with the iptables-save command, except endlessly long. Understandably, this takes a prohibitive amount of time. ...

Is it possible to set a rule up so a certain word, such as elephant always gets highlighted in a certain color in Microsoft Word?
To put it into context elephant is a business name (hypothetical), I ...

I recieve all the undeliverable reports for mailings sent from my company. Moving and cataloguing them can take a while, and it would be handy if I could create a rule that did that for me.
The most ...

I have an Outlook rule configured for a user so that when they a send a message it will CC two of their staff members. There is an exception to prevent copying the message if it is sent to a specific ...

I want to set up a rule that will decline all meeting invitations if I already have a meeting at that particular time slot. I'd prefer to add a custom message to the declination but that's a nice to ...